Roger Ach, Chairs local events with wife and proclaims to be a wonderful Grandfather when he is not involved in corrupt political undertakings and engaged is unscrupulous, unethical and even criminal bevavior.

Don't take my word for it.

Unlike Roger Ach, I have integrity and quite frankly do not need to create untruth's. See below or just search Google for Roger Ach before you make any investments with this man.

Scroll down and you find some great stuff like Federal Liens, State Liens, Civil Judgements, ranging from $7980 - $133,507 owed to a Mr. James Moody Jr.

When someone has Parents and Grandparents like this who needs enemies!

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Blue Gill, you’re priceless! I had that buzzard, Roger Ach, in the back of my mind when following some paths on Dickie. You know, this is yet another one who isn’t employed in a “regular” job & isn’t living off his golden parachute or railroad pension. He’s another one who has “influential people in business & society” stuffing his pockets with wads of cash.

Ach’s around often enough, but I think some of his prestigious lustre has worn off, due to the fact didn’t he find himself in some difficulties not long ago, that his face was on the news? I’m sure he continues to jingle a couple of those “markers” in his pocket, just to stay in the action, if not on the immediate periphery. Some reprobates have a tough time letting go & getting honest.

Back in the early ‘90s, he attempted to joke PNC/Central Trust on some loans for tanking business interests. He was turned over to their Special Assets Division & he kept on with the jokes. I believe his railroad car venture went belly up.

This is a great blog topic. I keep envisioning all of us sitting around the table with refreshments & talking about questionable deals & shady characters. Say, we might as well toss Kentucky’s Bill Butler in the mix while we’re at it, along with some Kentucky politicos. It’s only a block to the bridge!!

Taken from: http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/09/13/loc_ach13.html

Ach surrenders on check charge In Texas cell for hour, posts bond

By James McNair
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Cincinnati businessman Roger Ach surrendered to Texas authorities on a felony bad check charge, spent a little more than an hour in a crowded jail cell and, on Friday, was back home on a $7,500 cash bond.

Ach, 60, beat a Monday deadline to turn himself in to face a Denton, Texas, charge of "theft of services" from a Texas consulting company, Halter Financial Group. Its owner, Timothy Halter, accused Ach of writing a bad check for services valued at between $100,000 and $200,000. An indictment was issued June 5.

Ach would not comment on the charge Friday. His lawyer in Texas, Michael Whitten, said Ach will plead innocent at his initial court hearing on Oct. 13.

"We don't believe Mr. Ach committed a crime," Whitten said. "We believe this is just a business dispute that has been criminalized in Mr. Halter making this complaint."

Being booked and having a mug shot taken at the Denton County jail is the latest setback for an entrepreneur and fund-raiser whose connections extend to Ohio Gov. Bob Taft and the upper reaches of Cincinnati society. His company, Games Inc., has lost $2.2 million in its current fiscal year and concedes the uncertainty of its future as a going concern. He lost his East Walnut Hills mansion last month in a sheriff-supervised foreclosure auction.

Ach arrived at the Denton County jail near Dallas on Thursday morning and, for the first time in his life, found himself on the wrong side of a cell door, Whitten said.

"He turned himself in voluntarily at 10:30 a.m., and they took him into custody," the lawyer said. "He was sitting in a cell with like 43 other guys waiting to be processed."

Ach was released at 1:45 p.m. after posting a cash bond of $7,500, Sheriff Weldon Lucas said.

Theft of services valued at $100,000 to $200,000 is a second-degree felony punishable by a fine of up to $10,000 and a prison term of two to 20 years.

In early August, Ach's East Walnut Hills home was sold at a Hamilton County sheriff's auction for $1.18 million. Mark Muething, acting as trustee for the buyer, did not identify his client.

The money from the court-ordered foreclosure auction was to be used to satisfy a $1.3 million note held by Bank One.

July 23, 2008

'Downtowner' Saga Continues

The former editor and publisher of The Downtowner is seeking foreclosure on an East Walnut Hills mansion owned by businessman Roger Ach II to settle an unpaid debt stemming from a dispute over the newspaper's trademark.

A lawyer for Douglas Taylor and Taylor Communications Inc. filed a motion this week in U.S. District Court alleging that Ach hasn't anted up any of the $56,000 he agreed to pay to settle the trademark flap that began last winter. Jim Frooman, Taylor's lawyer, is asking a judge to foreclose on Ach's mansion and sell it at auction to pay the debt.

If the court agrees, it would be the second time in five years that Ach’s mansion was sold at sheriff’s auction. The lavish home was sold for $1.18 million at an August 2003 auction in a manner designed to conceal the buyer’s identity.

At the time, a lawyer for a company owned by millionaire businessman Carl Lindner served as a trustee for the anonymous buyer who bought the mansion. Lawyer Mark Muething — who worked for Great American Financial Resources, a company owned by Lindner — handled the transaction. Later, real estate records show the home was deeded back to Ach and his wife, Janet.

Ach’s mansion is well-known to movie-goers: It was featured in the popular 1988 film, Rain Man, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise.

Taylor bought the weekly Downtowner in 1996 and published it for a decade, before entering into a one-year licensing arrangement with Ach and his company, InQBate Corp. Ach continued publishing The Downtowner after the deal expired in November 2007, prompting Taylor’s lawsuit. Ach eventually renamed the newspaper as The Pulse.

Ach has a history of legal troubles related to business deals including 2003 felony bad check charges in Texas and 2002 misdemeanor charges for failing to pay his city of Cincinnati income taxes.

While the business has taken a turn, Ach has left a series of lawsuits and unpaid bills that have earned him many critics who claim he makes promises he can't possibly keep.

Ach said that as he has grown older, has become more stubborn about paying only what he really owes.

Ach seems to live the high life, his critics say, tooling around town in a Corvette and dining at the city's finest restaurants.

But although he's settled most cases quietly, the lawsuits and financial disputes are hard to miss. Both Cincinnati and Hamilton County have taken him to court for failing to pay taxes. Ach negotiated settlements in both cases.

One of Ach's favorite spots, the five-star restaurant Maisonette, sued him in 2001 for failing to make good on a tab for $8,759. He settled that case, too.

Money troubles also spilled over into Games Inc. Casey Barach, the former vice president of business development who left the company in mid-2001, said there was difficulty meeting payroll starting in the spring of that year.

"Clearly, we were struggling," Barach said.

In court papers, there is plenty of evidence that Ach's company has struggled for more than a year to stay afloat. In a deposition given last November, in a case where a former employee sued Ach's company for $99,000 in unpaid bonuses, Ach acknowledged problems going back 18 months.

"It (the company) was never in a position to repay its creditors as well as meet its operating expenses, during that period," Ach said in a deposition filed in Hamilton County Municipal Court.

Other problems surfaced in a lawsuit resulting from the aborted 2000 merger between the Lottery Channel, another Ach-controlled company, and MDI Entertainment Inc. of Hartford, Conn.

MDI's CEO, Steve Saferin, wound up suing Ach in a federal court in Connecticut to force repayment of a $108,000 loan targeted for payroll.

Ach wouldn't comment, saying the Saferin suit had been settled.

"Our deal fell apart because I couldn't stand it anymore," Saferin said. "I just realized I couldn't work with the guy."